While popular, they don’t appeal to everyone, especially during the workday while trying to get things done. If you’re a Skype user and annoyed by emoticons in your IMs, you can disable them, but there’s a bit of a catch.
Disable Emoticons in Skype
Go to Tools > Options IM & SMS and then select IM appearance. In the right pane uncheck Show emoticons and then Save. This will stop emoticons from showing up in your IMs and disable them in your screen too so you can’t send them.
As I mentioned previously, there is a trade-off with this though. Instead of seeing the actual emoticons, animated or not, you’ll see the “behind the scenes” text of each one. You can see in the shot below, the emoticon text can be just as annoying, especially if someone tries to send you an emoticon in the middle of a sentence or conversation.
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